Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-04-08
IN GENERAL

better for sheep, and they are just TIE
| thing for cows in milk.
| There is a new way to work butter by
| putting 1t IN a whirling machine, in a
coarsely woven sack, and whirling the
buttermilk out of it. Water is let in and
this Is whirled out, and SO thu butter is
made ready to pack.
| The calves want corn meal to make tat
! which Will keep them warm, bran to make
| bone and slnew, oats ground to make
| muscle and tissue, anu hnseed meal to
keep the bowels healthy and the pores
open and to make the whole animal ma
chinery work well.
When the butter is washed with brine
the salt is better mixed with it than when
| the salt is put in dry. The better the
| salt is mixed with the butter the more
uniform the flavor. The salt does not
mlngle with the butter until it is dissolv-
! ed, and IT does not dissolve until it alb
serbs enough of the buttermilk to do so.
| Working the butter helps to mix the salt
| through it. But at the same tine it
brushes the grain of the butter and makes
it salvy. Washing out the buttermilk
| with brine when the butter is in a
| granulated form or like grains, is the best
way.
For duckllngs mix corn meal and bran
| equal parts and make into a mush and
| feed this In milk. If milk is not to be
had, put some ground meat or cracklings
IN the mush. Clear, raw corn meal mix
| ed with water Is not fit feed for duck
lngs. Until past the downy stage thew
! should have no water to swim in. GiAe
| them all they want to drink. Put gravel
| and sand in the bottom of the water YES
| sci.
On the average seventy-fve or 100 acre
| farm 1t will not cost over fifty cents
apiece IN clean cash to keep a small flock
of laying hens. With fair treatment they
will average 100 eggs each in the year.
At htteen cents dozen the egg product
will be worth $1.25 per hen. If 20 Der
cent. of the eggs be used in the family,
and for Matching to keep up the stock,
we shall still have 81 left as an offset to
the fifty cents worth of food consumed.
The difference is fifty cents, which is 100
! per cent. profit. The eggs used and the
Groupings may be set over against the
labor and care bestowed on the flock. It
| pays to keep hens.
Grow pease to make the pork of. Grow
as early as may oe; they will stand cooler
weather and soil than most other crops
Mellow up potato or corn stubble with an
Acme harrow, aud drill them in at the
rate of two or two and half bushels per
acre. As soon as the pease are formed in
the pods, NOW and feed. The pigs will
eat vines and all clean, until they get ripe
enough to shell in handling. Then cut
cure and thresh, saving the stems care
fully for the sheep in the winter. They
To-, i
leave the ground in splendid condition
for sheep. 1t will be big gain to both
the pease and wheat to sow good super
phosphate Literally with them.
Care should be exercised in feeding
poultry, that III their food there shall be
nothing that has rank flavor, or it will
be detected in the eggs and even in the
flesh of fowls. Chopped onions or celery
Will lmpaTt their flavor to the egg; and,
If fed very long upon such food and
then killed, the meat will have the same
flavor. The same will also occur if hens
are left to feed at the manure heap or
drink barnyard water. In such case, as
1t has been remarked by writer. tho
eggs will remind one very much of badly
prepared tripe. By little care all these
bad results can be avoided and desirable
conditions maintained.
1t is not unfrequently the case that diff
ferent colonies of bees will get to Guar
relIng, and the stronger will overcome the
weaker and rob the hive of its honey.
Occasionally, too, swarm that is placed
IN new home will abandon that home
and return to the parent hive We think
we have an unusual case in the abandon
ment of hive by all the bees late in the
fall and with ba
honey. This was discovered af.er fall
of snow. Not single bee was in the
hive, and upon removing it the amount
of honey indicated that the departure
must have been made some time preyi-
| Gus. No cause could be assigned for so
singular movement.
The increasing number of eggs will
lead to larger demand on the part of
the hens for shell forming material. Keep
the bone and shell mill going
Shelter the tender little ones from the
searching winds by setting the coop on
the sunny side of hedge, board fence or
building, or what is still better, set it
under an open shed.
Fowls that have spent the winter in
doors will require careful attention now
Like tender plants, they must be harden
ed very gradually. or big crop of roup
viii be the result. Let them run out
only on sunny, mild days, until they be-
come accustomed to the change.
We have heard objections made to
feeding swine on meal from corn and
| cobs ground together, the reason given
| being that it was feared the small bits of
cobs might injure the stomach of the
pigs. We have, however, in feeding this
for long while, never found that there
were any injurious effects. On the CON
| trary, our experience has been that pigs
would thrive better on this than on corn
meal alone, for the reason that the ground
cob served to make the meal more
porous, SO that the gastric juice would
penetrate it more readily. Corn meal
alone, when wet forms too solid mass
in the stomach to be easily digested. On
this account We regard corn and cobs
ground together aoout as valuable for
feeding purposes as the same weight of
corn meal alone. 1t proves true in the
case of swine as with cattle and horses
that some coarse food given with that
which is finer makes better ration, more
healthy and more profitable.
Washing with cold water will help to
harden the muscles in a horses breast
or back for the collar OF the saddle
The PADDLE should be removed often to
allow the back to cool. and the sweat
washed off. A few minutes delay in this
way will do the horse a great deal of good
Washing with vinegar is good.